Dividends and Buybacks

Dividends and Buybacks Articles

Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is performing rather well when you consider that the bank’s dividend is not likely to rise as fast as some of the more healthy banks.  The banking giant is...
24/7 Wall Street is constantly on the lookout for dividend gains for investors.  While this is not due to any breaking news, there was a secondary offering this morning that we saw and it highlights...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) took a page from the dividend competition playbook when it raised its payout.  The stock market has not been a huge helping hand for the shares so far.  Still, we...
Investors love huge biotech opportunities for growth.  Investors also love to get paid in the form of dividends.  Unfortunately, the terms “dividend” and “biotech” never match up.  While...
Gold has seen a major run-up even before the Middle East and North Africa strife.  This has lent support to many gold mining stocks and gold royalty players as well along with the growing number of...
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) has released its 2010 annual report.  While there are plenty of Buffett-isms in there for some mild financial entertainment, there are some clues that investors...
Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE: RF) is one of the many widely held companies which filed its annual report under form 10-K with the SEC.  Investors rarely look through these annual reports due...
Many shareholders argue that share repurchase and stock buyback plans are generally a waste of shareholder capital aimed solely as a short-term share price targeting mechanism.  Many would prefer to...
Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE: KSS)  has buckled to the pressure to pay a dividend. At the end of January, we highlighted eight non-dividend payers that need to pay dividends.  Kohl’s was among those. The...
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) recently joined the waves and waves of public companies which filed their 10-K annual reports with the SEC.  We often dig through these and other reports to find tidbits...
Most investors today believe that none of the banks are paying high-yielding dividends any longer.  While it is true that J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is going to reinstate its dividend...
Investors love dividends and they love technology stocks.  By and large it is hard to find very high dividend payout in technology.  There are several chip stocks which pay over 3% in current...
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is holding its Investor Day presentation this morning.  While everyone wants to hear about the continued wave of lower write-downs and charge-offs, the big...
The ongoing fight for how to run The St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE) is heating up and taking a strange turn.  Bruce Berkowitz, whose Fairholme Capital is a near-30% owner of St. Joe, has now resigned...
We have many big events to watch for in the coming week at American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ),...